OK, the name is stupid - reminds of Chandler BING from Friends - but will it be any good as a search engine? Got to say I'm not that impressed with Google lately, they've been letting SEOers get away with murder, so there's a chance a better search could
get at least one user

OK, the name is stupid - reminds of Chandler BING from Friends - but will it be any good as a search engine? Got to say I'm not that impressed with Google lately, they've been letting SEOers get away with murder, so there's a chance a better search could
get at least one user

Agreed.

I've been using other search engines recently as Google does seem to have lost focus on who exactly is the customer, perhaps it's still in Beta?

Bing is a silly name but it is a word that is used dramatically already in every-day-speech to mean 'surprise' so I do get it, but it is daft so Microsoft is going to be on the back-foot from the get-go with this one.

I've been using other search engines recently as Google does seem to have lost focus on who exactly is the customer, perhaps it's still in Beta?

Bing is a silly name but it is a word that is used dramatically already in every-day-speech to mean 'surprise' so I do get it, but it is daft so Microsoft is going to be on the back-foot from the get-go with this one.

Because Google was such a great name? If you don't know what a google is, the name sounds even sillier than Bing. If you do know what google means, it still seems like a very silly name for a search engine.

I'm not sure how it's going to work for my most common searches (all having to do with software development), but it looks like a dream come true for the average "consumer search". Unlike Live Search, I'm sure I'll use Bing fairly frequently, even if it
doesn't become my default search engine.

Because Google was such a great name? If you don't know what a google is, the name sounds even sillier than Bing. If you do know what google means, it still seems like a very silly name for a search engine.

I'm not sure how it's going to work for my most common searches (all having to do with software development), but it looks like a dream come true for the average "consumer search". Unlike Live Search, I'm sure I'll use Bing fairly frequently, even if it
doesn't become my default search engine.

But Google means nothing so you can turn it into whatever you wish. Kumo might have been the same way.

Plus attacking Google isn't really a valid defense of Microsoft's new name and constanting rebranding every two years...

Do you know I've been thinking about this and it's actually all very clever!

We are all talking about the name, so we will remember it - and this is the key part - because if we remember the name - ***for whatever reason*** - we are more likely to use it (aka 'see what all the fuss is about')

... and if the product is actually good ... we are more likely to continue to use it.

It is a silly name but it is a catchy-attention-seeking name. If it is a success, in time, we will forget how silly it is.

Bing makes perfect sense in en-US. Kumo never would have made it as a verb here; Kumo'ed sounds too much like comode, which is a toilet. Any other use of Kumo as a verb doesn't roll off the American tounge; Kumo'ing, Kumo it, all nails on a chalkboard.

Bing in the States often indicates something is complete and/or correct. Pretty close to "Bingo!" when an answer to a question is correct, or "Badda-Bing!", etc. Perfect sense. They chose well, I think. Given Microsoft's history of naming things it could
have been bad, real bad.